Friend of mine saw it at the cinema, seems there is an interesting backstory as the filming was done before Armstrong was finally outed as a cheat and the film originally was supposed to have been a defence against the accusations but turned 180 degrees to become Armstrong, the lie

Still maintains that the time before his cancer was free from dopage, so that includes the World's in '93 and his La Flèche Wallonne victory.

I think in his mind that's true as he only considers the heavy doping program he was on post cancer to be "doping". The dabbling pre cancer, he doesn't consider that to be doping. Didn't he more or less admit that in the Oprah interview?

its worth it for the bobbins he comes out with to suggest he didnt dope in '09 on the ventoux stage which bagged him the third spot on the podium when he "miraculously" hung on to the leaders and dropped Wiggins; "they took a blood sample immediately after the stage, everyone knows that distorts your blood levels"

And just how much animosity there was between him and Bertie. And Bertie doing exactly what Bruyneel told him not to do on one stage, and Bruyneel throwing his toys out of the pram/team car.

Totally agreed with the sentiment that illegal/unofficial viewing is appropriate, watched it on that there video sharing site weeks ago.

Watched it last night as I suspected it wouldn't be there long. I found it quite interesting but then I find that whole era and the LA story quite intriguing. I still think there's more to come out with respect to how complicit the UCI/TdF organisers were.

Yeah the whole UCI angle is indeed fascinating/depressing. However if they can’t even implement the rules they introduced into this season can we expect them to really do anything meaningful about something 5, 10, 15, years ago?

I'm reading The Secret Race, Tyler Hamilton's book on the era and that has quite a lot of references to Hein Verbruggen/UCI.

I believe other (clean) athletes have had early diagnosis of testicular cancer thanks to anomalies in their drug tests

that's one of the big accusations thrown at the UCI - given that he obviously did have testicular cancer, that should have produced a positive doping test. That it didn't suggests that they got the result but turned a blind eye to it...

I believe other (clean) athletes have had early diagnosis of testicular cancer thanks to anomalies in their drug tests

David Walsh's 7 Deadly Sins explains this in more detail; testicular cancer causes an increase in a hormone (?) which is tested for in doping tests, and LA's values for that hormone (taking figures from his own autobio where he discusses his diagnosis) were off the chart by a factor of '000s compared to the healthy/non-doping baseline.

Watching that film inspired me to enter the 2011 Kielder 100 and endure one of the most miserable days I've ever spent on a bike, as well as costing me several hundred quid in new parts to repair the damage. I ought to sue.